Improved buckle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTUS R. EGBERI, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPRovED BUCKLE.

Specicatiou forming part of Letters Patent No. 511,313, dated May 1,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS R. EGBERT,

of the city of Philadelphia, county of Phila-- delphia, and State ofPennsylvania, have invented an Improved Buckle for Fastening Belts orSaddle-Grths; and I do hereby declare the following to be an exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon, making a part oi' thisspecication.

Figure l represents the buckle with the tongue on the side for one sideot' the girth. Fig. 2 shows the buckle with the tongue on the center forthe opposite side ot' the girth. Fig. 3 represents a girth with thebuckles attached.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction ofthe bucklewhich gives strength to the buckle, and the attachment ot' a Wider beltor girth than can be fastened to the ordinary buckle.

The buckle is to Vbc made of malleable iron, and the same castinganswers at both ends of a girth, and is intended to take the place of ya separate buckle and ring as now used, having extensions at the sidesto enable broad girths to be used.

A represents the sides and angular ends or extensions of the buckle; BB, the cross-bars, raised in the centers, where they are braced by aconnecting-ban@ D is a roller on the side A, or on the center bar, c,that the tongue rests on, the tongue E lbeing attached to one side, A,or to the center bar, C, as shown at Fig. 3, to suit either end ot' agirth.

The bar to which the tongue is attached -has a slight groove, in whichthe tongue fits so as not to move to either side.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is- The construction of the buckle with the extended angular ends andraised center, as herein described, and for the purpose set forth.

' AUGUSTUS 1t. EGBERT. Witnesses:

J. FRANKLIN REIGAR'I, WILLIAM DAILY.

